Politics & Government News

8:10 AM on Saturday, January 17

AP obtains documents showing Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodriguez has been on DEA's radar for years

6:26 AM on Saturday, January 17

6:02 AM on Saturday, January 17

Longtime climate activist Bill McKibben finds hope in solar energy despite the Trump administration rolling back environmental regulations and freezing offshore wind projects

5:49 AM on Saturday, January 17

President Donald Trump has demanded a 10% cap on credit card interest rates by January 20

5:38 AM on Saturday, January 17

There's broad bipartisan support in Congress for reviving federal health care subsidies that expired at the beginning of the year

5:13 AM on Saturday, January 17

President Donald Trump has made lots of promises during the first year of his second term in the White House

5:12 AM on Saturday, January 17

Official election results show Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has won his seventh term with 71.65% of votes

3:46 AM on Saturday, January 17

Egypt and Sudan welcome President Trump's offer to resume U.S. mediation with Ethiopia over the Nile River water dispute

3:29 AM on Saturday, January 17

A Ukrainian delegation has arrived in the United States to discuss a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war

2:17 AM on Saturday, January 17

Journalists and media leaders in Bangladesh are demanding protection after recent attacks on two major newspapers

1:34 AM on Saturday, January 17

Canadian leader Mark Carney met China’s Xi Jinping this week

7:00 PM on Friday, January 16

The Federal Aviation Administration is urging U.S. aircraft operators to “exercise caution” when flying over the eastern Pacific Ocean near Mexico, Central America and parts of South America, citing “military activities” and satellite navigation interference

5:42 PM on Friday, January 16

A U.S. judge has ruled federal officers in a Minneapolis-area immigration operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren’t obstructing authorities, including when these people are observing the agents

5:32 PM on Friday, January 16

US judge rules federal officers in Minneapolis-area immigration operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters

4:47 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump has issued a series of pardons, including for the father of a large donor to his super PAC and a woman who ended up back in prison after he commuted her sentence during his first term

4:31 PM on Friday, January 16

Justice Department investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frey impeded immigration enforcement

2:51 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump this week quietly appointed four new members to the Commission of Fine Arts, one of two federal panels reviewing his plan to build a White House ballroom

2:18 PM on Friday, January 16

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor said Friday that a judge lacks the authority to appoint a neutral expert to oversee the public release of documents in the sex trafficking probe of financier Jeffrey Epstein and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell

11:28 AM on Friday, January 16

Brazilian President Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen celebrate the expected signing of a free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur

7:58 AM on Friday, January 16

U.S. President Donald Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland